. Trump’s Irish unity ‘merger’ comments expose Unionist folly, says Hanna (SDLP leader) https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.irishnews.com/news/northern-ireland/trumps-irish-unity-merger-comments-expose-unionist-folly-says-hanna-Z5SFQYHY3RDE5EGNNRGDYQZRMI/ Sinn Féin said that the US president’s co...

Actually NI has a legitimacy as a state No, so-called northern Ireland is not a sovereign State, but rather 6 occupied counties of Ireland still trapped inside a contrived political entity, the United Kingdom - which no Irish person ceded Ireland into in the very first instance. It not a country or...

You seem very fond of lumping Ireland in with Britain. England (King of England) illegally invaded and fraudulently occupied Ireland. King Henry II of England and an English Pope, Adrian IV, conspiring to steal Irish land, had NO authority, moral or legal. The very idea of a POPE giving a country t...

Word on the street was that if she ran, the media were going to bring to the attention of the Irish public how she totally embarrassed herself on BBC Question Time, by the prolonged groping and kissing with actor Brian Cox - some people were referring to it as a form of sexual assault. Sounds far wo...

. The President of the United States of America calls for the reunification of Ireland - or as he called it, a "merger". Donald Trump touted a 'merger' between the north and south of Ireland at the Friends of Ireland event in Washington DC. It was a serious cajole. It was not a joke, as th...

Would President Connolly be the best person to deliver an apology to our neighbours in Northern Ireland for the states failure to extradite people wanted for violent crimes in NI during the Troubles?? Might give her a bit more cred up there. There is no "in" so-called northern Ireland. Co...

I can't take your distinction between the Ulster British of English origin and Scottish origin seriously. Most people are well mixed anyway. Unless they are divided from each other in their own minds it's academic. Also there's no must obey. They must obey if they want to be Irish and they're refus...

Ireniall wrote: ↑Fri Mar 20, 2026 10:58 pm Well I'm not sure what's not going to happen. I would agree that a Border Poll looks unlikely but who knows really. You see -we agree again

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No-those who have chosen to follow their ethnicity, residence or historical presence in Ireland and be Irish are Irish. Effectively this comes down to what way you vote in a Border Poll. If you vote against unity you are not Irish. The non-occurance of a Border Poll will in time imply a vote agains...

I bring it up in order to better identify the actual people that I refer to. I don't wish to discuss religion beyond that. It's clear though that the Church of Ireland , with its all-Ireland St. Patricks flag and its growing parishes all over Ireland, is much less partitionist than the Presbyterian...

I mean you seem to want to pretend that Northern Ireland does not exist. Now again, just to show how little we disagree on, I would greatly prefer that it did not exist but I'm just not prepared to cod myself about the truth of it. You just seem to always go too far Again you avoid answering the ac...

The residual attachment to the British army from the days when one third of it was Irish is only to be found in NI. The betrayal of the Irish soldiers who fought the Great War ended any widespread appeal in Ireland. Somehow I doubt you disagree with that so I don't know what you thought I meant or ...

Yes in the real world and I've witnessed them myself. The residual influence I refer to is in Ireland ,not England ,and you really should have been able to deduce that for yourself. A disgrace to Ireland? You go too far again. You're a terrible man altogether. No I don't go too far. That is really ...

Yes but England itself was constructed from separate kingdoms which were forcibly united and most modern countries have a similar origin. There was no transnational legal system preventing this from happening so calling it illegal is meaningless Wrong again - there was a transnational legal system ...

You use the word illegal a lot when you are referring to times when there was no law. I'm not sure it does any good to do that and as far as I know the use of the term the British Isles in British official documents has been discontinued so fair enough. Quit posting nonsense. Irish law is the oldes...

Well thankfully general relationships are very friendly these days but the actual formal connections between the two states are essentially zero despite the cross-border stuff that is really just part of the ceasefire conditions. Hate is too strong a word to use and in fact much of the rivalry with...

You are undoubtedly correct. Ireland has a full claim to be a separate country and this was recognised by the UK by Ireland being mentioned separately in the title of the UK at the time. But the difference between the UK and Ireland is that Ireland is a country but the UK is not-it's a union. Of th...

I mean if they are not Irish they must be either another nation or part of another nation. There is a Swedish minority in Finland who consider themselves to be Finns mainly, or that's my understanding anyway, which again shows my point about choice. Despite not really being cultural Finns they choo...

In many cases the Church of Ireland people who are of mostly Anglo descent are found in some numbers across Ireland and often have less of a partitionist mindset perhaps as a result. I would think of such people as more Irish than the two-thirds of Gaelic descent who reject everything Irish. Again ...

Again you go too far. The term was invented by a Greek more or less and it refered to both islands but the people in Britain took it over to refer to their island primarily and certainly the name British was not at all inclusive of any Celts which is why none of them use it today. My own view is th...

Martin opined that Europe was grand and benefiting from inward migration. What bloody planet is he living on, in politics far too long and out of touch with the public mood. Whatever about anything else, Trump should have put him back in box as regards that matter. Mickey Mouse Martin, when asked j...

We are not a separate nation becouse we are fundamentally different in any major way from the British. We are a different nation because the British never accepted us into their nation or family group or whatever right up to the point at which we departed. There is no irony then as it is not exposi...

But you said yourself that the Unionists are not Irish so they have to be another nation whatever that is? No - they are not another nation. There is only one Nation and that is the historical Nation of Ireland - one of the oldest countries in the world. The Nation is Ireland and its people are Iri...

Do some light reading like the book 'Different but the Same' - to hear the experiences of Southern Prods. Even this afternoon, there was someone on about the release of 1926 census in the next few weeks and that one of the striking findings was the rapid decline in Southern Prods following so calle...

In my exchanges with Unionists over the years I was forced to confront their oft-repeated assertion that they come from a part of Scotland that was always English-speaking. I knew that this was unlikely because those areas are small but the only way to counter the point was to get a list of all the...